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Who Are The Hungry Children? And How Far Can Increases In Social Grants Help Them? Evidence From The 2019 General Household Survey.
Hunger, and particularly child hunger, have been discussed recently as a justification for extending the social grant system. This brief probes the ...
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The Public Sector Wage Dispute: Understanding the judgment of the Labour Appeal Court
This brief considers and evaluates the reasoning of the Labour Appeal Court in the public sector wage dispute and considers the implications of its judgment, ...
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Human Settlements In The Metros
This Brief discusses the Department of Human Settlements’ proposed re-orientation of its policies.
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A Constitutional Challenge To The Supplementary Budget II: What Are The Prospects Of Success Of A Socio-Economic Rights Challenge?
This brief examines the prospects of success of a constitutional challenge to the Supplementary Budget based on the State’s failure to allocate more resources ...
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A Constitutional Challenge To The Supplementary Budget I: A Direct Challenge Within The Context Of The Separation Of Powers
An article in Daily Maverick has proposed a direct constitutional challenge to the Supplementary Budget. This brief examines whether a court will entertain a ...
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Gender Based Violence in the time of Corona
The purpose of this brief is to remind the public that the cries in the protests against gender based violence of September 2019, when Uyinene Mrwetyana was ...
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Moral Laws IV: Abortion
Abortion, not unlike sex work, is an age old subject which has been criminalised and decriminalised over the centuries. Like both sex work and drugs, abortion ...
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Moral Laws III: Drugs
Like the first two briefs on sex work in this ‘Moral Laws’ series, the stigmatisation of drug dependent users as outcasts and criminals is based on a ...
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Moral Laws II: Sex work - The Arguments
This brief is the second brief of a series of four. This brief lays out the arguments for the status quo and for a reform of the system. It also discusses a ...
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Moral Laws I: Sex work - History and current status
This brief is the first of a series of four. It deals with legislation about the sex trade in South Africa The second brief lays out the arguments for the ...
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